Diogenes Quotes

• What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

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• I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

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• I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

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• Stand a little less between me and the sun.

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• I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

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• It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

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• The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

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• The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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• The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

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• The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

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• There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

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• No man is hurt but by himself.

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• Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

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• Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

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• Modesty is the color of virtue.

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• Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

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• Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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• The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

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• In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

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• It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

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Diogenes (43)

Birth:	412 BC
Death:	323 BC
Nationality:	Greek
Profession:	Philosopher

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Diogenes was a greek philosopher. He is a Greek name shared by several important historical figures, the best-known of whom is the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope, better known as Diogenes the Cynic or simply Diogenes.

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